Hi Albert, On 23 February 2011 17:30, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > What I'd like to propose is that we work towards preparing a dev text > > installer, using Illumos and incorporating the the hard work done on > g11n, > > and a recent build of SFW etc. I think most people are using SPARC based > > servers as opposed to workstations, so I suspect XNV/JDS can follow at a > > later date if there is interest. > > Additionally, SPARC graphics support is extremely limited so the > desktop target will primarily be Sun Ray and other remote sessions. It > is probably possible to omit all of XNV, but JDS provides core > software including Python. > > When I looked at Sun Rays several years back, there seemed to be more of a push to install SRSS on x86, I forget the exact reason, probably cost and at the time T2000s weren't great. Are there really that many people using Sun Rays on SPARC? > > I'm not suggesting this should be a stable release. I'm not sure what > > consolidation versions should be used. > > > > I have confidence we can reproduce builds for 148. > > Is this based upon using Illumos (as per oi_148a) or Oracle ON? It would be interesting to know what the Illumos guys think about SPARC, and if they see it as supportable long term. Cheers, Matt
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